Math and BBQ

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Math is hard. So hard, in fact, that most humans would rather deal with nice round numbers than think about the ramifications of real data. Anthony and Jeff discuss Attribute Framing, and its impact on advertising and civil discourse. Then, Ron and Diana Watson in Witchita have eaten the same single meal every day for 15 years. Jeff and Anthony consider removing variables to such an extreme and whether it is a net positive for stress and anxiety.

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0:00.0	I
0:12.9	Say again
0:15.4	And I'm daddy. This is we have concerns
0:19.8	Hi, Jeff banana. I have to be carbonic. Hello concerned citizens
0:26.4	Jeff, I think as an award-winning podcast there is one thing that we have always always been honest and truthful
0:36.3	And steadfast about and that is that is the number of awards we've won that is the number of awards we've won
0:42.9	Yeah, and that and number two
0:45.1	Fuck numbers because math sucks. Yes math sucks. You know if there's one thing you need to learn about science
0:52.9	Thank you that a arithmetic
0:55.4	mathematics
0:57.4	calculus
0:59.4	Boring and unnecessary they suck and people will say but they're important to the sciences they are a science
1:05.1	Let me let me ask you this Jeff if they're so important to science and they are and they are such a science
1:11.7	Then how come we have the acronym stem and
1:15.7	Science and mathematics are not only separate on that Jeff
1:19.1	But there is far away from each other is possible as they always should be think about it
1:24.7	Keep your math out of my science. I've said it for a long time keep your data away from my facts
1:32.1	That's all I'm saying you know what I like to imagine Anthony
1:35.8	I like to imagine a first-time listener who just sort of scrolled through did I search for science podcasts?
1:43.3	Mm-hmm scrolled through and just put this one on play and found the truth and
1:47.8	Found the truth after years of listening to other science. I'm you can't see me, but I'm doing air quotes science
1:56.8	Yeah, that's not that's not Anthony putting the number two up twice on either side of his head
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